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Oncley, the new head of the Department of Biophysical Chemistry, is an alumnus of Southwestern College. He was appointed a research assistant at the Medical School in 1939 and became an assistant professor in 1943. He advanced to an associate professorship in 1946 and became a full professor...
John H. Finley '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature and master of Eliot House, has accepted a one-year visiting professorship at Oxford University beginning next October. The announcement was made last night by Frank Aydelotte, former director of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, who is Oxford's American representative...
Finley's duties at Oxford entail giving a total of 36 lectures of classes in the field of Classics. Attached to the Professorship is a professorial fellowship at Balliol College, which gives Finley the full rights of a senior member of the College. These include the Common Table and Senior Common Room privileges, and entitle him to a fiat...
...Baker started teaching "English 47" to a selected group of 12 Radcliffe girls. After two years it was obviously a success: and in 1905 Harvard agreed to accept the course, at the same time awarding Baker a professorship in Dramatic Literature. For a number of years both Baker and his students were intrigued by this new experiment, but soon the Radcliffe girls became dissatisfied and petitioned the college for the establishment of an advanced course 47a. Shortly after this was begun, they also formed a 47 Club in which they discussed and read plays on an extracurricular basis. The club...
...ideal executive must have: brilliance, youth, original ideas, an engaging personality, and a knack for getting things done quickly. Last spring, when he decided his faculty lacked men who were experienced in practical education administration, he flew to Chicago, and offered the city's superintendent of schools a professorship. Herold C. Hunt, one of the nation's best known and most successful educators, turned down a contract renewal and took a salary cut to come here...